Make up!
So after my horrendous run on Wednesday, I did end up playing some more at lower stakes to blow off steam, and making back some money. I then did an honest review of every hand I played to see objectively if I played bad, or if I ran bad.
I do a lot of hand by hand analysis, which may bore some people to tears, but I think it's really the best way to learn how to improve your play if you have the objectivity to look back at a hand and go "Wow, that was a donk move, what was I thinking?" I also post threads on 2+2 like this one to try to get opinions from people on where I am making mistakes or if I am lost in a hand.
Honestly, it was a little of both. I definitely ran bad, but I could have had a significantly less impacted loss if I also had not screwed up some other hands were I tried to run over the table with lesser holdings. In general, there's a lot of calling stations in $2/$4, so I need to be less bluffy and play tighter. Right now my VP$IP is 21.94. I'd like to knock it down to 19% or so, and basically just stop getting tricky. Very boring solid TAG play looks like it has a just fine shot at $2/$4 and I need to remember that.
But to objectively look at things, I am currently running .9bb/100 over 556 hands at $2/$4, and overall at all limits running 2.03bb/100. However, due to rake and a horrible session when I jumped up to $3/$6, I am currently down $62. At the end of the month I'll be able to better see how things look when I get my first rakeback payment.
I'm going to try to play a lot this weekend to hit Contender is UB's RAI$E system. The regular benefits don't matter much, I just thought it would be a fun goal. And maybe if I don't care about the points I'll cash them out. Contender looks easily doable every month even with as little as I play, so maybe this will be a good way to get some extra value out of the site.
Last night I played in the Small Stakes Limit Shenanigans 8 game event. Its HORSE + some, and is fun because it switches up so much. I felt pretty good in it, with Stud H/L and Limit Hold'em being my weakest games, Limit Hold'Em because it was shorthanded, and I suck at shorthanded. Nonetheless I think I did fine until blinds got up and I got caught bluffing on a Limit Hold'em Hand, than ran horrible in Razz, a good example being raising with A25, and then seeing the next two cards be King, King. By the time Stud H/L hit, I needed to find a way to double up, but it didn't happen and down I went. Oh well, was great fun anyways. :) Then I played some normal 2/4 for a while.
Yesterday was "break even poker" land so I don't have any real exciting hands. I'll leave you with this one because I have no idea why I was never raised in this hand. Villain.. pretty passive. It wasn't even a bad beat really, and I have no call to complain, as in the BB I ended up with A4 again and flopped trips, so this was.. pre-karmic? :)
Absolute/UB Cereus Hold'em, $4.00 BB (9 handed) - Absolute/UB Cereus Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Preflop: Hero is SB with A
, 4
5 folds, CO calls $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $1, BB checks
Flop: ($6) 2
, A, 3 (3 players)
Hero bets $2, 1 fold, CO calls $2
Turn: ($10) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $4, CO calls $4
River: ($18) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $4, CO calls $4
Total pot: $26 | Rake: $1.25
Results:
Hero had A, 4 (two pair, Aces and fours).
CO had 2, 2
(three of a kind, twos).
Outcome: CO won $49.50
I do a lot of hand by hand analysis, which may bore some people to tears, but I think it's really the best way to learn how to improve your play if you have the objectivity to look back at a hand and go "Wow, that was a donk move, what was I thinking?" I also post threads on 2+2 like this one to try to get opinions from people on where I am making mistakes or if I am lost in a hand.
Honestly, it was a little of both. I definitely ran bad, but I could have had a significantly less impacted loss if I also had not screwed up some other hands were I tried to run over the table with lesser holdings. In general, there's a lot of calling stations in $2/$4, so I need to be less bluffy and play tighter. Right now my VP$IP is 21.94. I'd like to knock it down to 19% or so, and basically just stop getting tricky. Very boring solid TAG play looks like it has a just fine shot at $2/$4 and I need to remember that.
But to objectively look at things, I am currently running .9bb/100 over 556 hands at $2/$4, and overall at all limits running 2.03bb/100. However, due to rake and a horrible session when I jumped up to $3/$6, I am currently down $62. At the end of the month I'll be able to better see how things look when I get my first rakeback payment.
I'm going to try to play a lot this weekend to hit Contender is UB's RAI$E system. The regular benefits don't matter much, I just thought it would be a fun goal. And maybe if I don't care about the points I'll cash them out. Contender looks easily doable every month even with as little as I play, so maybe this will be a good way to get some extra value out of the site.
Last night I played in the Small Stakes Limit Shenanigans 8 game event. Its HORSE + some, and is fun because it switches up so much. I felt pretty good in it, with Stud H/L and Limit Hold'em being my weakest games, Limit Hold'Em because it was shorthanded, and I suck at shorthanded. Nonetheless I think I did fine until blinds got up and I got caught bluffing on a Limit Hold'em Hand, than ran horrible in Razz, a good example being raising with A25, and then seeing the next two cards be King, King. By the time Stud H/L hit, I needed to find a way to double up, but it didn't happen and down I went. Oh well, was great fun anyways. :) Then I played some normal 2/4 for a while.
Yesterday was "break even poker" land so I don't have any real exciting hands. I'll leave you with this one because I have no idea why I was never raised in this hand. Villain.. pretty passive. It wasn't even a bad beat really, and I have no call to complain, as in the BB I ended up with A4 again and flopped trips, so this was.. pre-karmic? :)
Absolute/UB Cereus Hold'em, $4.00 BB (9 handed) - Absolute/UB Cereus Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Preflop: Hero is SB with A
, 45 folds, CO calls $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $1, BB checks
Flop: ($6) 2
, A, 3 (3 players)Hero bets $2, 1 fold, CO calls $2
Turn: ($10) 6
(2 players)Hero bets $4, CO calls $4
River: ($18) 4
(2 players)Hero bets $4, CO calls $4
Total pot: $26 | Rake: $1.25
Results:
Hero had A
, 4 (two pair, Aces and fours).CO had 2
, 2 (three of a kind, twos).Outcome: CO won $49.50
posted by Ray | 7:07 AM
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